Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 143 - Rebellious Armor

The long-legged sardine ultimately turned into a delicious chunk of meat, transforming from a creature into food.

Though it had legs and a mouth, it lacked bones, including teeth.

It couldn’t even be classified as a mollusk since it had no internal organs. Its body was made entirely of pale, fatty meat, rich in fat.

The objects it had swallowed were likely assimilated into more meat.

Suna put on the silver bird-beak mask and began dissecting the chunk.

Yang Yi, meanwhile, directed the skeletal arms to collect the fatty slime and meat scraps from the ground, preparing them for incineration and harmless disposal.

As for a sample, the largest piece in Suna’s hands would be enough.

The following day, Yang Yi got up early and headed to the bow of the ship, using his third eye to scan the surroundings.

After confirming there were no suspicious floating objects, he increased the Nightmare Star’s speed to 65 knots, cutting the original nine-day journey down to five.

He planned to reach the Bountiful Sea as quick as possible to investigate what was going on.

As for the Gale, it was still undergoing repairs. Yang Yi had spoken with its captain, Xu Da.

Their Gale Brigade had lost nearly a third of its members in the Frozen Sea, only a little over 70 remained. Several ships belonging to Xu Da’s close friends had been destroyed and needed supplies to rebuild.

They’d been searching for an island and had only found their first one yesterday. That meant Yang Yi was likely the first player getting close to the Bountiful Sea.

After adjusting the ship’s speed and heading, Yang Yi took out his Pale Worm Rod and began fishing. Before long, he caught a... lobster?

Only, it had no shell on its abdomen, just pale, exposed meat, like a worm.

【Name: Delicious Giant Lobster】

【Description: A giant lobster that tastes amazing no matter how it’s cooked. Its abdominal meat is unshelled, tender, and juicy...】

Yang Yi didn’t even finish reading the description, he tossed it straight into the Life Furnace behind him. He had deliberately dismantled the Life Furnace to use it as an incinerator for handling the grotesquely tasty sea creatures.

The lab already had enough samples. There was no need to keep more. Besides, they were easy to catch!

He then caught a limp, soft-shelled giant crab, its shell almost rubbery, and tossed it into the furnace as well.

As the ship drew closer to the Bountiful Sea, the frequency of catching those kinds of creatures increased dramatically. Fortunately, the bite rate was high, and he could still reel in some normal fish, like long-legged sardines.

The wooden bucket beside him was full of fish that were safe to eat.

He also fished up a treasure chest, though it was just a bronze supply chest, which gave 200 units of wood and 20 units of steel.

That was enough fishing, as he planned to use the rest of the time to train.

He didn’t intend to stockpile food by fishing. Instead, he’d just buy it, especially vegetarian options.

The New World Fleet, through either building expansion or upgrades, had developed a new recipe: canned bread.

Unlike the hard, dry black bread, it contained soft white bread made from wheat. It tasted much better, but was also much more expensive.

A single can cost 200 Shell Coins and only lasted one meal.

If used as a staple food, an adult would need two cans a day, 400 Shell Coins, making it much more expensive than black bread.

Black bread had dropped in price, making it a champion of cost-efficiency.

Yang Yi planned to buy both kinds for variety. He’d also pick up some pickled vegetables.

Sausages weren’t necessary; the fish he’d caught and the dried monkey meat he still had would last him a long time.

He was in the middle of calculating how much food he should buy when he suddenly noticed a flurry of activity in the chat channel, tons of messages were flooding in.

“I swear I didn’t start a fire on the deck, why did the Ice Nest Worms show up?”

“That damn electrical buzzing!”

“I don’t want to be frozen...”

…

Although the number of players still stuck in the Extreme Winter Sea hadn’t dropped drastically, judging by the messages, they were clearly in serious trouble.

Yang Yi knew exactly why.

Because the players who had turned into ice statues probably weren’t actually dead.

He scrolled back through the chat logs and found that players in the sea had started complaining about the temperature dropping as early as midnight, it had hit minus 40 degrees Celsius.

Most of them were moving slowly either because of glaciers blocking their way or due to crashes into icebergs that had forced them to stop and make repairs.

Some were even unlucky enough to be frozen onto a glacier.

“Unlucky” wasn't the right word — those players had survived the Ice Nest Worms’ attacks, so they were actually fortunate. But getting free from a glacier wasn’t easy.

Most of them didn’t have as much fuel as Yang Yi, nor did they have skeletal arms to help with labour. It would take them a lot of time to escape. And of course, the players who had been frozen solid but hadn’t died probably still counted as active.

As for why the Ice Nest Worms had become more sensitive, it was probably related to the falling temperatures.

The colder it got, the more sensitive those worms would be to heat sources. Once it reached a certain threshold, a person’s body heat would stand out like a torch.

If there weren’t any other hotter targets nearby, they’d get attacked.

Yang Yi had once ignited himself and gained thermal vision because of the temperature contrast, so he had some experience in this matter.

He didn’t dwell on it and soon closed the chat window.

After triggering some Light of Life using a few long-legged sardines, he began his workout routine to raise his attribute experience. However, he didn’t train for long. Instead, he went to the central courtyard and found a spacious spot, he was ready to deal with that set of top-tier armour.

The Lost Penitent’s Armour had been sitting in his storage for a long time. It had been completely inert, just like any other, with no aggression.

But the description said it possessed self-awareness, could move on its own, and was classified as a relic. So, he had to be careful.

Yang Yi took out the upper half, deliberately the rest inside his ring. As a result, only the torso, left arm, shoulder guard, and helmet were present.

The reason he chose the left arm was because Yang Yi wanted to test if it could understand language or even speak. He had even prepared charcoal just in case.

But the only thing the armour did when it saw Yang Yi, or rather, when it saw a human, was open its chest plate and invite the person to wear it. It was exactly the same as the first time they met.

Of course, Yang Yi wasn’t going to wear it. He held a flintlock gun, removed the eye patch, and switched to his third eye, keeping a distance of more than an arm’s length. He spoke to test it, using a common human language.

“Can you understand what I’m saying?” he asked.

The armour remained silent, showing no response.

It seemed that it didn’t understand human speech.

Just as Yang Yi was about to give up, he suddenly noticed something... it actually shook its head!?

The motion was very stiff, as if it hadn’t moved in a long time.

Yang Yi was stunned.

What did the head shake mean?

“Can’t you understand what I’m saying?”

The armour responded much faster this time, nodding decisively.

Yang Yi’s expression darkened instantly.

“You seriously don’t understand what I’m saying?”

It nodded again.

“Close the chest plate.”

It didn’t react.

“Open the chest plate!”

The armour closed its chest plate.

“Ugh...”

Yang Yi took a sharp breath, realising that the armour was seriously malfunctioning. It seemed to be in some kind of rebellious phase.

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